Richard Schoen

Richard Melvin Schoen is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis and best known for the resolution of the Yamabe problem in 1984 and his work on harmonic maps. He was born in Celina, Ohio, took his BS in mathematics at the University of Dayton and received his PhD in 1977 from Stanford University with Leon Simon and Shing-Tung Yau as advisors. After faculty positions at the Courant Institute of New York University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego, he was a professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 2014.